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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: More *BSD installation grief.
In-Reply-To: fmayhar@acsc.com's message of 24 Sep 1993 20: 39:56 -0700
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 11:26:39 GMT
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>_This_ time, I can't even get as far as I did with NetBSD.  The kc floppy
>boots and asks for the filesystem floppy, which I provide.  It then proceeds
>to go through its startup sequence.  It finally prints a "ISA strayintr 7"
>message, indicates that it's changing the root filesystem to fd0a, and then
>hangs forever.

Are you using an Ultrastor controller?  Try setting your controller
to IRQ 14, see if that helps.

					Jordan
--
(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie

I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee.  I am an independent
contractor.